Wait, where's my cross!

WALT understand today's reading.

I know this when I write two emotions about how we are followers of Jesus. 

 

Aww, we had a draw in basketball against Point England Black!

On the 12th of August 2015, we had a basket tournament.

After school we had to be at the Tamaki Recreation centre straight after school because we had training for the years 5, 6, 7 and 8 with Panmure Bridge.

The first drill that we did was that we had to defend the ball. I was practising with Shannon, she was also my classmate. Then a women called us back in and this time we practised our shooting. A lot of basketballs went into the hoop at the same time so only a few people managed to get their shot in. Then we lined up and had to go one-by one. A lot of us managed to get shots into the hoop.

Soon after that, we got called back in again because our game was about to start. Glen, Shannon and I were the substitutes for the first quarters. Siu, Dhon, Rosary, R.J and Rhonda whom are also my classmates were on the court first. The game started off with a jump off. It was Dhon and a girl from the other team that jumped for the ball. Dhon won the ball. Siu ran and ran but this other buy stole the ball and then Dhon stole it back and ran faster to our goal and he took a shot and it went in.

Halfway through the game, we swapped some of our players. Shannon and I replaced Rosary and Rhonda. After a while we had many goals but the other team caught up to us. The alarm started ring on and our goals were 18 to 18. We had a draw.

It was fun playing against Point England Black in Basketball. We will have to train harder so that we can get more shots than the other teams

WALT understand and use descriptive language in my recount.

I know this when I use appropriate verbs to describe what had happened in our basketball game.

Someone help me, this mustelid is going to bite me!

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We are learning to develop understanding of the text that we read using De Bono's thinking hats.
I know this when I use De Bono's white thinking hat and write down 10 facts about mustelids.

Hey look, I can see a mokomoko!

We are learning to understand the text that I read.
I know this when I use De Bono's white thinking hat to find 10 facts about Mokomokos.

Hey, where are my lollies?

On Sunday my uncle had come from Dunedin to visit my family and I because he had been gone for a long time. He was in jail and now he's out.

My family and I cleaned up our house and my two auntie cleaned up the kitchen. The living room had to be spotless. A while later, we saw a blue, big van in front of our drive way and it was my uncle with my grandpa. I felt really excited about meeting him because I'm not sure he remembers me or not. He walked inside smiling and he went to my nana to say "Hello!" Then he came over and kissed my families and I on the cheek.

We chatted and chatted and my mum asked my uncle "Who do you work for?" My uncle said that he works with children and that he also gets paid. My mum asked my uncle again, "Do you have to pay for your food, clothes and shoes?" and he said that the people he works with pays for those essentials.

Then uncle came towards my mum with a bag. She opened that bag and it was...... lollies. My mum told my two aunty to come and take a hand full of lollies and my mum filled her picnic bag with the lollies and gave my uncle back his bag.

I was so happy to meet my uncle because I haven't seen my uncle since I was four or five years old.


We are learning to: understand and use descriptive language.
Success Criteria: I know this when I use appropriate verbs to make my writing interesting. 

Let's go to the arcade!

On Saturday 15th of August 2015, we went to the arcade in Panmure to celebrate my birthday. I turned 11 years old.


Folau, Soane, Sione and Patrick are my siblings. Akesa my cousin and I had to wait for my eldest brother Taniela  and my auntie Ana to come back from Taniela's game in Howick. We waited and waited until they came back from the game so we could go arcade at the bowling ally. It was 12:59 when they came back home. We finally arcade.

Once we got there, we went to the machine where we went to go and change our money into tokens that we needed for the games. I changed my $5.00 into five tokens. My brothers, cousin and my auntie did the same. We saved 15 dollars and wasn't allowed to use it until our five tokens our used up. The first machine that I went to was called the basketball shooter. After my last three shots, my total of my shots into the hoop was 39. I received plenty of tickets from that game. The next game that I went to was called 'hit the target.' I had to roll the eight balls in the holes. There are different numbers on the targets and if I hit the target, I get to have more tickets. I played and played but I didn't hit the target. The next machine was the same as 'hit the target' but I had to try to aim it in 5,000 hole so I can get 100 tickets. I played it until I had one shot left. I shot it and it went in the 5,000 hole and the alarm went on and it said, 'WINNER!' I was scared because I thought that I was in trouble nut my auntie said that I wasn't and that I won 100 tickets. I had to wait until I had my 100 tickets to come out from the machine. The boys looked at how many tickets I had. The next machine that I went to was the first car racing game that I started with. I picked a green and yellow car. I played it. I came second in the race.

I saw my brothers shooting in the hoop and my cousin and my auntie played like professional basketball shooters. A while later, we have all used up our five tokens and we didn't wan't to use our 15 dollars. We went to the ticket counter to count all our tickets. My brother Folau had no tickets, Soane had none either, Sione my litter brother had 100 tickets, Akesa had 447 and I had 340 tickets.

After getting our prizes, we were walking out the door, when we saw this machine with plenty of tickets. We ran again to change our $5.00 into five tokens. We had to press the green botton so the hook can stop on the bonus which would give us plenty of tickets. We played it until we ran out of tokens and money.

 I really enjoyed playing at the arcade and trying to stop the hook on the 'bonus' word. Next time I will try my best to collect even more tickets to win a flying plane for my little brother.

We are learning to understand and use descriptive language.
I know this when I use appropriate verbs to make my writing more interesting. 

Where is that voice coming from?

We are learning to understand the Holy Spirit as the dove.
I know this when I describe the dove renewing Jesus' faith in my own words.